Executive Recruiter, GSR, Global Speciality Recruiting

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Executive Recruiter responsible for driving research strategy, talent mapping, and end-to-end recruitment of senior leaders across EMEA.

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Amazon needs an Executive Recruiter to help the business scale by recruiting senior leaders across EMEA. Few rewards in search match seeing your hired candidates drive a positive, measurable impact on the business.

The Executive Recruiter owns and executes the research strategy senior-level (L8+) searches. Qualified candidates are strong across the full search lifecycle, with a particular focus on research strategy development, market & candidate mapping/ identification, candidate sourcing, generation, development and engagement. You will partner with senior recruiters on the most complex Director searches and lead your own searches end to end.

The role also includes:

Conducting research to map target companies and top talent for Amazon
Building search strategies to identify and attract strong candidates
Improving how Amazon recruits talent
Calibrating candidates with other recruiters and hiring managers
Developing prospects into candidates through engagement and assessment
Contributing to GSR's knowledge base by sharing insight on relevant industries and talent pools
Building talent networks and tapping industry sources to maintain a candidate pipeline
Leading update meetings on active searches with hiring managers
Partnering with hiring managers and senior recruiters to guide search decisions

Basic qualifications

- Experience in advising and influencing executive leadership
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience in progressive corporate or search firm recruiting with a focus on passive L8+ candidate generation
- Experience building and driving passive L8+ talent sourcing initiatives and pipelines
- Experience creating, measuring and scaling workflow among candidates, hiring managers and the recruiting team
- Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships
- Experience delivering L8+ talent across multiple industries and geographies, with demonstrable expert

Preferred qualifications

- Experience with executive recruiting in either a blue-chip, global in-house executive search team, or a top executive search firm
- Experience working with recruiting and people-related tools, CRM systems, and complex spreadsheets

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

How we rate this

Executive Recruiter, GSR, Global Speciality Recruiting at Amazon rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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